Combined cotton scraper and cultivator



(No Modem J. A. CHAMNESS. GOMBINED COTTON SGRAPERAND OULTIVATOR.

No. 414,630. Patented Nov. 5, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

JAMES A. OHAMNESS, OF I'IANOEVILLE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN MITCHELL AND JAMES M. ALLRED, OF OULLMAN COUNTY, ALABAMA.

COMBINED COTTON SCRAPER AND CULTIVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part o Letters Patent No. 414,630, dated November 5, 1889. Application filed June 5, 1889. Serial No. 313,110. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES A. CHAMNESS, a citizen of the United States, residing at I'Ianceville, in the county of'Blount and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Cotton Scrapers and Cultivators and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reiTerence marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The special object of the invention is to cultivate and scrape a cotton-field at thesame operation.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective View of my combined cultivator and scraper ready for its work; Fig. 2, a plan View of the same, and Fig. 3 a detail perspective view. of the tooth-beam. y

In the drawings, A represents an ordinary plow-stock, consisting of the beam a, plowstandard a, and handles a (L This stand ard a has a rear brace a and is formed of two curved parallel plates of a, one bolted to each side of beam a, and the two connected at the lower end by an intermediate block a bolted or riveted thereto. The brace a is bolted to the under part of the rear end of the beam at and made fast at its front end between the plates (v a, so as to hold the latter forward at a proper inclination, and thus re ulate the pitch of a shovel-plow B. This is all old and well known to the public.

I remove the plow B from the stock A and attach an ordinary cultivator-beam C to the standard a in the following manner: I make a diagonal groove 0 in the top of the toothbeam O and another groove 0 in the rear side thereof-the former to receive the beam a and the latter to receive the standard a. I then bolt the middle tooth F to said standard and connect the right end of beam 0 with the front of plow-beam a by the brace E. This brings the cultivator-teeth in echelon, as is generally preferred. I now take a cottonscraper H and bolt it ad justably by its standard H to the right end of beam C- in one of the scraper-holes h and support it by a subjacent brace h. This causes the scraper to be thrown far enough behind and to the right of the beam 0 to scrape the earth immediately adjacent to the row of cotton-plants, while the teeth F F F will cultivate the ground to the left thereof. This enables one man and horse to do at one operation what is usually done at two separate ones.

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the plow-beam, of the scraper H, standard H, braces 71. h, and beam 0, all arranged as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I atfix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES A. OHAMNESS.

\V itn esses:

JOHN MITCHELL, .T. M. ALLRED. 

